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00:00Here are our champions. They're three of a kind.
00:04Hi, my name's Lisa Jackson.
00:06I'm Nancy Sanford.
00:08I'm Sharon Walensky, and we're waitresses!
00:12And here are our challengers. They're also three of a kind.
00:16Hi, I'm Mike Christensen.
00:18I'm Jackie Carrot.
00:20I'm Mark Moore, and we're in the airport.
00:24And they're here to play hot.
00:29Potato!
00:31And here to toss the hot potato, our host, Bill Cullen!
00:35Thank you all.
00:37Thank you. Thank you.
00:41Thank you all. Welcome to Hot Potato.
00:43Well, you probably have met our teams before if you were with us last time.
00:47But let me run over our rules, because we are. This is our first week.
00:50Each round consists of a question that has a number of answers to it.
00:53Now, what is different about our game is that a team can win a round if all three members of
00:58the opposing team are knocked out of the game by a wrong guess.
01:01Or a team can win a game by coming up with a seventh answer to that question we have posed.
01:07Two out of three rounds wins the game $1,000 and a chance to win even more money on our
01:11bonus game.
01:12Now, let's learn some more about, well, for instance, our returning champions.
01:15Our waitresses have won a game in $1,000.
01:18They went bust on trying for their bonus, but if they get back up there, they'll be going for $10
01:23,000, which is pretty good.
01:25And, Sharon, I don't know what to talk about.
01:27We've known each other so long, we seem to have run out of subjects.
01:31But suppose I ask about your hobbies. May I do that?
01:33Yes, you may.
01:34I play guitar, and I play tennis, and I go rock climbing.
01:38That's an interesting threesome.
01:39Yes.
01:40Nancy, how about you?
01:41I'm a flautist, and I like to dance.
01:44What kind of flute do you play? Are you classical or popular?
01:47My flute is better off with classical music.
01:49Yeah, a lot better. You can't hear.
01:51I'm pretty good. I was a lot better when I was in orchestra, but now I just do it as
01:55a hobby.
01:55It's a fun hobby. It's a lovely instrument.
01:57Lisa, how about your hobbies?
01:59I don't have just one particular hobby.
02:01Yeah, more than one.
02:01Yeah, well, two. I think my favorite thing to do is visit people.
02:07Well, that can be a very strenuous hobby, depending upon whom you visit.
02:12Yeah, that's what I do.
02:14I don't like to press the point, but what is your second favorite thing to do, Lisa?
02:20Dancing. I like to dance.
02:21Oh, I would assume, then, your very favorite of all was to visit someone and dance with them.
02:25Right.
02:26Okay, we got, oh, I'm good at that. May I talk to the Air Force over here?
02:30Sure.
02:30Mike, Captain, tell us about your hobby.
02:32Well, this would be hard to believe, but my hobby's flying.
02:35Oh, I believe that.
02:36I really enjoy it. I private fly, and I also like to ski.
02:38Do you like to visit people?
02:40Sure, that's why I fly.
02:41How about you, Jackie?
02:43Well, when I'm home, I like to interior decorate, and also I love champagne brunches.
02:48Oh, boy. Mark.
02:49I have a lovely wife and three beautiful children at home that take up about 98%.
02:53Enough of a hobby for anyone.
02:55Right.
02:56She has champagne brunches over there, Lisa. Next time, go visit her.
02:59I know.
02:59Yeah, not a bad idea.
03:01Air Force has control. Waitress has won the first round.
03:05Air Force has control because it is their turn.
03:07Mike, we will begin with you.
03:08The question will apply, we hope, to everybody, so if all of you will listen.
03:12We want the names of seven of the ten most admired women in the world as chosen by the readers
03:20of Good Housekeeping in its most recent poll.
03:24The most admired women in the world.
03:27There are ten of them.
03:28We want seven answers.
03:29So we begin with you.
03:30Mike, are you going to answer, or do you want to challenge one of your nice opponents?
03:34I think I'd like to answer.
03:35Well, good.
03:36I think at this point it's pretty smart, too.
03:37What do you say?
03:38Well, Nancy Reagan.
03:39Nancy Reagan is indeed one of them, and you have a point on the board.
03:46The sort of fun thing about this game, the first few answers usually come trippingly off the tongue.
03:52What do you think, for instance, Jackie?
03:54Do you have one, or do you want to challenge?
03:55Oh, I'd like to answer the question.
03:57If you have one you're reasonably sure of, it would be a good move to name it.
04:00Okay, I'm going to say Princess Di.
04:02Princess Di is another.
04:03You are right.
04:04Two right answers on the board.
04:08As it goes on, it gets a little more difficult.
04:10Mark, what do you want to do?
04:12I'm going to answer, Bill.
04:13Okay, here comes Mark's answer.
04:15I'd say Betty Ford.
04:16Betty Ford.
04:17You're right again.
04:18All right.
04:19Forgive me.
04:19That was an incorrect answer.
04:21Excuse me.
04:21I do beg your pardon.
04:24That was incorrectly considered right.
04:26I find now it is an incorrect answer.
04:29Mark, I'm sorry.
04:29I wasn't playing with your emotions, but that knocks you out of the game if you will go there
04:33and take your place.
04:34Of the round.
04:35Yes, just, I'm sorry about that.
04:37I don't like to do that, but sometimes we do have little delays in judging.
04:40So, control passes over to our waitresses.
04:43And, Lisa, it's up to you now.
04:45Answer or challenge?
04:47I'll answer.
04:47Okay, here comes another answer.
04:49Um, Barbara Walters.
04:52Barbara Walters is incorrect.
04:54So, Lisa, you go back there and sit on the bench if you would.
04:58Incorrect.
04:59So, that leaves us with two players on the side of the waitress.
05:02And we'll be back here in just a moment to pick up this round.
05:04But right now, we have a word for you.
05:11Okay, now we're going to pass control over to the Air Force.
05:13Let me recap now, because during the commercial, you might have forgotten what's happened.
05:16We're looking for seven of the ten most admired women in the world.
05:19Thus far, we've had two correct answers.
05:21They are Nancy Reagan and Princess Di.
05:24Control because of the myths on the waitress's side passes to the Air Force.
05:28Mike, you now.
05:29We have two right answers.
05:30Need five more.
05:31Or you can eliminate your two opponents, however you want to do it.
05:34Going to answer or challenge?
05:35I'd like to answer.
05:36Okay, now, one of the ten most admired women in the world.
05:39What's your answer, please, Mike?
05:41I'd say Justice O'Connor.
05:42Justice O'Connor.
05:43Very good.
05:44That's a right answer.
05:46Well done.
05:47Three right answers.
05:49We need four more for our Air Force to win the round.
05:53What are you going to do, Jackie?
05:54Answer or challenge?
05:55I'm going to try to answer.
05:57All right, let's have it, and good luck.
05:58Okay, going with my name.
05:59I'm going to pick Jackie Onassis.
06:01Jackie Onassis.
06:02Incorrect.
06:04Incorrect.
06:04Jackie, if you will go back to the bench, you are knocked out of the game.
06:08Control passes back to the waitresses.
06:10Two on your side and only one opponent over there.
06:12And you have won the round, so another round would give you the game and the shot at the big
06:17jackpot.
06:18Yours, by the way, will be worth $10,000 if you get up there.
06:20Nancy, it's your turn.
06:22You have one opponent, or we need four answers.
06:25You can win either of those ways.
06:27You're going to answer or challenge?
06:28I'm going to answer.
06:29All right.
06:29If that's the way you want to do it, you do it.
06:31Who do you think?
06:32Margaret Thatcher.
06:33Margaret Thatcher is another right one.
06:34And we have another right answer.
06:41It gets down to the interesting point.
06:44We have two players on the waitress's side.
06:46Mike of the Air Force is all alone.
06:48We need three more correct answers or, as long as the waitresses have it, a proper and correct challenge.
06:55Sharon, what do you want to do?
06:57Answer or challenge?
06:59Sharon I'm going to answer.
07:01Or she said with a great lack of confidence.
07:05All right.
07:06If you are correct, you pick up a point, or a point will be there, and you retain control.
07:10What is your answer?
07:11Elizabeth Taylor.
07:14Incorrect.
07:16Sharon, I'm sorry.
07:17Join Lisa on the bench.
07:19Nancy, you are all by yourself.
07:21Control has passed to the Air Force, where Mike is all by himself.
07:25Either team could win by knocking out your opponent.
07:29You have one opponent left.
07:31Do you want to answer, or do you want to challenge?
07:34That's tough.
07:35It is tough, Mike.
07:36Only one of you on either side.
07:38You, of course, are fighting for your life because you need this round.
07:42They can afford to lose a round.
07:43We work on tips now.
07:47She says she works on tips.
07:48What are you going to do?
07:49Well, I'll challenge Nancy.
07:52Okay.
07:53Nancy, if you answer correctly, you win the round and the game.
07:58If you answer incorrectly, you're eliminated, and the Air Force wins the round and ties the game.
08:04What is your answer?
08:05Princess Grace.
08:06Princess Grace.
08:08Incorrect.
08:09The Air Force has won.
08:11I'm tied it up.
08:17Boy, oh boy.
08:20You know, that was a tough question.
08:22All of you had trouble once you got through the first three or four.
08:25Let me give you the rest of the answers.
08:27Let me state right now that the game is tied up one round apiece.
08:30Carol Burnett.
08:31Of course.
08:32Catherine Hepburn.
08:34Yeah, I thought about that.
08:35Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
08:37Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
08:37Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
08:38Pat Nixon.
08:39Mother Teresa, by the way, is number one.
08:41Pat Nixon.
08:42Sally Ride.
08:44The first woman astronaut.
08:47And Phyllis Schlafly.
08:49Those are the ten most admired women in the world, according to the answers we have.
08:54So, waitresses, you get the control back, just because it's your turn, and we're getting
09:00into the rubber round.
09:02But before we start the rubber round, rather than rushing you through it, why don't we pause,
09:06give you all a chance to catch your breath, be back right after this word for you.
09:20Okay, it's all tied up.
09:22One round apiece.
09:22Yes, waitresses are back in control.
09:25Oh boy, let me, you know, some, there are some of these questions that I think I will
09:29do very well on.
09:30There are some I think I might do poorly.
09:32This is one of the ones that I'm glad you are going to have to answer, as opposed to
09:37my answering.
09:38Here's the question.
09:39We are looking for seven of the eight theatrical motion pictures that have starred or featured
09:46John Travolta.
09:48Now, for our purposes, ignore the film he made for television.
09:52The eight, we're looking for the seven motion pictures that starred John Travolta.
09:57Lisa, you begin.
09:59Are you going to name me one, now that it's the easy part, or are you going to challenge
10:02the Air Force over there?
10:03I'll name one.
10:04Okay, you think you know one, huh?
10:05Yeah.
10:06What?
10:06Greece.
10:07Greece.
10:07Yeah, that's right.
10:08I know that's right.
10:09Now that you mentioned it.
10:13Okay.
10:14It's a long way to conclusion.
10:15We need seven right answers.
10:16The team that comes up with the seventh answer wins the round and the game in this case, or
10:21by knocking out your opponents.
10:23What do you want to do, Nancy?
10:24I'll answer.
10:25Okay.
10:25You have confidence in this?
10:27Yes.
10:27May I hear it?
10:27Saturday night fever.
10:28That's another right one.
10:34Well, you girls were very good in astrology.
10:38Now you're being very good with John Travolta.
10:41How about you, Sharon?
10:42Are you going to answer or are you going to challenge?
10:43Yes, I'm going to answer.
10:44I'm going to say staying alive.
10:46You're right again.
10:46And you have three.
10:48One of those things, maybe.
10:51Air Force, all I can say to you at this moment is hope.
10:53Hope.
10:54Cross your fingers and hope.
10:55We're back to Lisa.
10:56Lisa, we need four more right answers.
10:58What do you want to do?
10:58Give me one or challenge one of your opponents?
11:01I'll give you one.
11:01All right.
11:02Here comes Lisa's answer.
11:03Blowout.
11:04Right again.
11:10Nancy, you are up.
11:11Answer or challenge?
11:12Let me repeat what we've heard so far.
11:14Grease, Saturday night fever, staying alive, and blowout.
11:19We need three more correct answers.
11:20Nancy, what are you going to do?
11:22Answer or challenge?
11:26I'm going to challenge.
11:27Okay, take a look.
11:28You have Jackie, Mark, and Mike.
11:30Whom do you challenge?
11:31Take a good look.
11:32Look them over.
11:32See?
11:32Jackie.
11:33Jackie.
11:34I don't know.
11:35I think if I were...
11:35I think that the distaff side would know more about Travolta than the guys.
11:39Jackie, you've been challenged.
11:41To stay in the game, you have to come up with one of the John Travolta motion pictures.
11:46Urban Cowboy.
11:48That's good.
11:48You're right.
11:49All right.
11:50All right.
11:51Nancy, into the bench, please.
11:55So, the Air Force, by just...
11:57Look at that.
11:57See, you were taking these.
11:58They were getting all the answers.
12:00Now, here you are ahead with three players to two.
12:02One's been eliminated.
12:03Mark, it's your turn.
12:04We need two more right answers.
12:06What do you want to do?
12:07Answer or challenge?
12:08I'm going to challenge.
12:09Okay.
12:10It's Lisa or Sharon.
12:13I'm going to challenge Sharon.
12:14Sharon, you've been challenged.
12:16To stay in the game, you have to name me a John Travolta motion picture.
12:20Okay.
12:21He made a movie with Lily Tomlin.
12:24It's called...
12:27Oh, God.
12:30Moments.
12:31No.
12:32Incorrect.
12:33Sorry.
12:34And you go back there and you join your companion.
12:36Well, look what you have done, Air Force.
12:38What a job.
12:39You only have one opponent left now.
12:40That was a very, very good challenge.
12:42This is for the second round.
12:44And if you get the second round, that's the game.
12:46Now, whose turn is it?
12:47It's Mike's turn.
12:48Mike.
12:49We need two more right answers, or you can try to knock Lisa out of the game.
12:53What do you want to do?
12:54I'll challenge Lisa.
12:55Uh-oh.
12:56Lisa, for the honor of your team and the success of your team, if you miss this, when you're
13:01eliminated, your team loses the round in the game.
13:04Okay.
13:05If you were right, you, of course, gain control.
13:07So to stay alive, what do you say, Lisa?
13:09When I was 15, I'm going to answer.
13:11When I was 15, I collected John Travolta pictures and his new movie that's out right now with
13:15Liv Newton-John, two of a kind.
13:17Two of a kind is a right answer.
13:22Very well done.
13:24Mike, if you'll go back and sit in the bench.
13:27Little did they know, little did they know when they challenged you that you are somewhat
13:31of an expert.
13:32None of us did.
13:32We now need one more right answer.
13:35So, you have control, Lisa.
13:37This is for the round and for the game.
13:39If you come up with a right answer, you win the round in the game.
13:43If you make a correct challenge, you do the same because you're looking for only one more
13:48right answer.
13:48What are you going to do, answer or challenge?
13:50Answer.
13:51Boy, you collected those pictures, did you?
13:53Ladies and gentlemen, for the second round and this game, Lisa, who collected John Travolta
13:59pictures when she was a tyke.
14:02Moment to moment.
14:03Correct.
14:04And you're going to go back.
14:13What do you know?
14:14We came up against the next place.
14:18Congratulations, ladies.
14:21This is the first time it's happened.
14:23We've been on the air just a week, but here you are.
14:26We challenge her, or you challenge her, and all of a sudden she announces, like, you know,
14:31rather embarrassedly, that she's an expert on Travolta.
14:35Indeed, she is.
14:36You now have won another $1,000.
14:38You have $2,000.
14:40To the Air Force, thank you, three of you very much.
14:43We have some nice consolation prizes.
14:46Bye-bye.
14:51Thank you very much.
14:52Ladies, when we get back here, we're going to give you a chance to go for your bonus,
14:56which this time is going to be worth $10,000.
14:59Back in a moment.
15:00Got this for you.
15:08Okay, we're happy to have you all back.
15:09Incidentally, before we begin the bonus game, the one Travolta picture, which was not mentioned,
15:14I know you probably know it, but for the folks at home, Carrie.
15:16Carrie was the one, but we didn't need it because you won without it.
15:20Time for the bonus game.
15:21The subject, ladies, of today's bonus is household tasks.
15:24I'm going to show you a pair of household tasks, and each time you will have to tell me which
15:29household task is more disliked.
15:32Each time you are correct, you'll earn $500.
15:35You may quit whenever you want, but if you can answer five questions correctly, you'll win your jackpot,
15:39which is now at $10,000, because you're up here for the second time.
15:45You may pass a question, but only one question per bonus game.
15:48Okay, you all ready to go?
15:49Ready.
15:50Okay, which household task is more disliked?
15:54Is it washing floors or yard work?
15:59Play or pass, decide that, and talk amongst yourselves.
16:01What do you want to do?
16:02Speak up so we can all hear you, because we like to eavesdrop.
16:04Do you want to play or do you want to pass it?
16:05Play or pass.
16:06If you think you know, we would like to pass.
16:10You may pass the first one.
16:12Okay, if you had chosen washing floors or yard work, which do you think is the most?
16:16Washing floors.
16:16Washing floors would have been right.
16:18It is the most disliked.
16:18However, you used up your one pass, and now, that's not very reassuring, is it?
16:25No, no.
16:26Which household task is more disliked?
16:28Is it cleaning carpets or cleaning the bathroom?
16:33You have no more passes, so you have to answer this.
16:36Take your time and talk it over.
16:37Yeah, don't you think it's cleaning the bathroom?
16:39Because you've got to scrub the toilet and the mildew in the shower?
16:44Okay.
16:44Do you want to go?
16:45These two, do you want to go for?
16:46Okay.
16:47We have to answer.
16:48So we're going to say cleaning the bathroom?
16:50Why did you say that?
16:51Well, because it's gross.
16:54I mean, you've got to use a brush if the brush slips in the toilet or something.
16:59And you've got to send for someone to go get the brush.
17:02Well, what if nobody's home, you know?
17:04You've got to go get the brush yourself.
17:06Yeah, that's why it's cleaning the bathroom.
17:08As far as you're concerned, it is the most disliked.
17:11Yeah.
17:13It's as far as everyone else is concerned, too.
17:16You're right.
17:24Every once in a while, Sharon, I find someone I can have a lot of fun with, and you're it.
17:31You now have $500.
17:33You want to go for $1,000.
17:33If you miss, you'll lose what you've already won.
17:36So talk it over.
17:49Okay, do you think they're too hard, and you don't want to take the chance?
17:52You can't pass.
17:53You've got to...
17:53No, no, no, no.
17:54No, we weren't saying that.
17:55If you think they're too hard, and you don't want to take the chance, because these seem kind of...
17:58Yeah.
17:59We'd like to just stay with what we've got.
18:01These are kind of hard.
18:02These are hard.
18:03Yeah, they're hard for us.
18:05That is one of our rules.
18:09You decided you were going to take the $500, right?
18:12Yeah.
18:12And hope to get back up here again.
18:14Right.
18:14That's not a bad idea.
18:15Not the worst idea in the world.
18:16Let's see what the next one would have been like.
18:19Which household task is more disliked?
18:21This next one, let's see.
18:22Grocery shopping or ironing?
18:25Ironing.
18:25Ironing.
18:26You would say ironing.
18:27The correct answer was ironing.
18:29That's it.
18:30Well, don't you worry about it, because you're going to take $500 with you.
18:34To add to your $2,000, so you have $2,500.
18:38And if you can defeat another team, when you come back this time, you'll have $2,500, but
18:45you'll be playing for a jackpot worth $15,000.
18:52Do I worry you?
18:53We'll be back here in just a moment.
18:55Right now, if you're here to watch this.
19:08If you'd like to be a contestant on Hot Potato, we're looking for three of any kind.
19:14Garden sprayers, football players, greeting card writers, or firefighters.
19:17So write to us at Hot Potato, Post Office Box 950, Los Angeles, California, 90048, for
19:24telephone 213-203-0156.
19:27And back to you, Bill.
19:28Well, it's been more or less of an interesting first week here.
19:31Particularly, I like the way it ended up.
19:34You did a very smart thing, if you weren't sure of the answers, by taking the money.
19:37Because now, of course, you have to defeat your next opponents, and we will meet at another
19:42time.
19:42But when you get back there again, you'll be going for $15,000.
19:45And, at this moment, you took the $500,000.
19:47So you have $2,500.
19:49That's not bad at all.
19:49Now, you're talking about tasks.
19:51You say it was a difficult question.
19:53The next one, what is your, Sharon, what's your pet peeve household task?
19:57What one do you like to do least?
20:00That's out of cleaning the bathroom.
20:02I know you don't like that.
20:06Now, wait.
20:06Now, wait just a moment, because, no, I'm putting pressure on you.
20:09Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, my friend Sharon is thinking of the household
20:13tasks she likes least.
20:14See you next week, and have an answer.
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